Who's who in Children's Services

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Loredana Grigore

Dear Norfolk County Council,

1. Please provide an organisational chart of your Childrens Services Department from Director down to Team Managers providing the names of current postholders as appropriate (Director down to Service Manager would be excellent including Heads of Service, Principal Offficers).

2. Please identify who within Children’s Services and your Human Resources Department takes lead responsibility on social worker recruitment and retention.

3. What steps if any have you taken or intend to take to incentivise retention?

Yours faithfully,

Loredana Grigore

Information Management, Norfolk County Council

Good Morning,

Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Information Request ENQ-14186-S5K6K2

Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 received on 3 August 2017.

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Sarah Cooper
Business Support Assistant (Compliance Team)
Information Management and Technology
County Hall
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Norwich
NR1 2DH

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Information Management, Norfolk County Council

Dear Loredana

 

Freedom of Information Act 2000 –Information Request ENQ-14186-S5K6K2

 

I refer to your request for information dated 03 August 2017.

 

The search for the information has been completed and I am pleased to
supply you with the following information:

 

1. Please provide an organisational chart of your Childrens Services
Department from Director down to Team Managers providing the names of
current postholders as appropriate (Director down to Service Manager would
be excellent including Heads of Service, Principal Offficers).

 

Your request has been considered and is refused.  This is because the cost
of locating and retrieving the information exceeds the "appropriate limit"
of £450 as stated in the Freedom of Information & Data Protection
(Appropriate Limit & Fees) Regulations 2004.

 

Norfolk County Council’s Childrens Services department is in the midst of
a restructure, and as such, we do not hold an up-to-date structure chart
for this service. In order to provide you with a structure chart of these
services as they stand at the moment would require a manual creation of
such a chart, this would involve in excess of 18 hours of work, and at any
rate, would not accurately reflect the final structures of these services.

 

You may wish to refine and resubmit your request so that it reduces the
cost to within the "appropriate limit".  Please contact me if you would
like some advice on refining your request. 

 

2. Please identify who within Children’s Services and your Human Resources
Department takes lead responsibility on social worker recruitment and
retention.

 

Fiona Fitzpatrick (Interim Assistant Director – Social Work, Children’s
Services)

Elly Starling (HR Lead for Social Worker recruitment and retention,
Children’s Services)

 

3. What steps if any have you taken or intend to take to incentivise
retention?

 

No financial incentives in place.

 

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Yours sincerely

 

 

 

Lewis Freeman

Information Compliance Officer

Information Management Service

Norfolk County Council

County Hall

Martineau Lane

Norwich

NR1 2DH

 

 

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